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East Africa continues to be an ideal destination for foreign investments after countries in the region posted improvements in facilitating ease of doing business. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi saw their positions in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business 2020 ranking improve on the backdrop of reforms geared at …

President Paul Kagame on Monday officiated at the launch of Dubai Ports (DP) World Kigali Logistics Platform, a new modern inland cargo handling facility expected to ease trade of goods and add impetus to Rwanda’s bid of becoming a regional logistics hub. The new facility, which was established under a …

Kenya has announced plans to set up warehouses in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo in an elaborate strategy to tighten its grip on the regional export market. The warehouses in Kigali, Bujumbura and Lumbubashi are expected to drive more exports and ward off competition from neighbouring countries …

Increasingly, integrating countries from across the continent and creating connections among citizens will make Africa an ideal home for all, President Paul Kagame has said. President Kagame made the remarks at the opening of the 3rd YouthConnekt Africa Summit underway in Kigali convening over 8000 young people from across the …

  ‘Visit Rwanda’ has won a top award for destination excellence in luxury and experiential travel at the 2019 Luxperience Awards in Sydney, Australia. The Luxperience Travel Trade Exhibition is a luxury Business event, that connects the most innovative experiential tourism and premium events specialists in the travel market. The …

Kigali, Twenty-six of the 66 evacuees who arrived in Rwanda from Libya on Thursday are children, it has emerged. Almost all of the children are neither accompanied by a parent nor family member, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The youngest member of the group is a two-month …

NEW YORK, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called on world leaders meeting in New York this week to back an international fund to help female victims of sexual violence during armed conflict. Mukwege has devoted the past 20 years to helping women raped by armed rebels, …

United Nations, New York, 23 September 2019 – With an estimated 390 million people living in extreme poverty, hunger and food insecurity, Africa is in a race against time to deliver on its regional and global development goals. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Sunday, African heads of …

  10 September 2019 The world must accelerate its preparation for the “inevitable” consequences of climate change, which also presents economic opportunities, pleaded on Tuesday an international commission co-led by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. According to the study of the Global Adaptation Commission, created in 2018 at the initiative …

  Wednesday September 11 2019 Kenya has intensified its bid for greater access to China’s 1.4 billion market share by organising promotional events seeking to increase its export to the Asian giant despite the existing trade deficit favours of Beijing. A series of events were held in Beijing between August …